Doom Patrol #30

Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol was already pushing DC's boundaries by 1990, and issue #30 arrives with a cover by Simon Bisley that makes the threat immediately visceral: a massive, reptilian creature with glowing red eyes looms over a smaller golden-armored figure it clutches in one fist, a strange shimmering orb in its other hand, while sparks or an energy burst flares in the lower left corner. Bisley's painted style gives the whole image a raw, almost tactile menace that suits a title built around the weird and the unsettling. Richard Case and inker John Nyberg handle the interior art for "Going Underground," with Morrison at the wheel — a reliable promise of something stranger than it first appears.